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Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.
A tool for authorized support staff to determine the status of network ports.
NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.
StudyTracker is Northwestern University’s centralized application for managing human research studies. It supports tracking IRB protocols, study status, participant enrollment, and compliance activities, helping research teams and administrators streamline oversight and reporting.
Email and calendaring services provide standard individual e-mail, calendaring, and contact management services.
The Graduate Student Progress (GSP) allows programs to track graduate student progress and view many elements of graduate student activity in one place.
OneDrive offers secure, cloud-based storage that lets you seamlessly collaborate and access files from anywhere in the world, at any time.
Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.
WFS Timekeeping is the University's official time entry system of record.
ConnectNU is Northwestern’s online undergraduate advising platform that coordinates scheduling, messaging, and other advising interactions to coordinate student support.
Northwestern offers 1Password, a secure password manager that helps you store, manage, and share passwords, passkeys, and other sensitive information.
Services include photographing headshots, live events, and other projects in high resolution digital photos for use in print, web, video, or other media.
NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.
The web content management system (WCMS) allows users to author websites without needing to learn programming languages or markup.
NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.
iBuyNU is a web-based ordering tool integrated into NUFinancials. It provides departments and schools with a streamlined, cost effective way to order from University Preferred Vendors.
Northwestern IT operates firewalls for the Evanston and Chicago Data Centers. Firewall rule add/change/deletes must be requested through the Firewall Ruleset Modification Request Form.
Northwestern University's agreement with Microsoft offers Microsoft Office software, core client access licenses, and operating system upgrades for University-owned computers
Microsoft Planner, is a project management platform within the Microsoft 365 applications and add-ins that enables users to create and manage plans and tasks on various ad-hoc projects.
The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.
The Graduate Student Tracking System (GSTS) allows programs to track graduate student progress and view many elements of graduate student activity in one place.
Microsoft Teams is a secure, Cloud-based chat and group collaborative workspace that seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft 365 applications, including Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint.